Wrong Target April 11, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Movement, St. Louis Local.trackback
Activist plans to lie in front of Metro bus to protest gas prices
ST. LOUIS — A preacher and activist says he will lie in front of a Metro bus Friday to protest high gasoline prices and a shortage of construction jobs given to black residents of St. Louis.
The Rev. Cleo Willis has participated in similar acts of civil disobedience in the past. He got in front of a MetroLink train in 2003 and helped shut down Interstate 70 in 1999.
Willis says he expects to be arrested for his rush hour action.
A Metro spokesman said he wasn’t aware of the impending protest.
And he did indeed do this this afternoon on Natural Bridge in north city, and some of St. Louis City’s finest were right there to give Mr. Willis a shiny new pair of handcuffs and a free trip downtown. The irony of this is that Metro (formerly Bi-State) is one of the more affirmative action-happy institutions in town. The city hall to which he was trying to send a message is 90% black. If he’s referring to the construction trades locally, he might do well to tell his people to brush up on basic math.
Also, what’s this about the high price of gas? As often as gas stations in certain areas of this city are victims of pump-and-run, it seems like the price of gas is immaterial to a lot of Cleo Willis fans.
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